Featured Report: A Handy Guide to Optimizing Your Social Media Channels

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HubSpot
A Handy Guide to Optimizing Your Social Media Channels
Apr,17,2014
by+Erik Devaney
For some, the word “optimization” conjures up thoughts of complicated mathematics and data analysis. It can seem like one of those things that only a true “data geek” could ever hope to understand.
At its core, however, the science of optimization is really quite simple: It's all about making improvements. It's about taking what you already have and then -- through experimenting and measuring -- figuring out ways to make it even better.
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TNW
Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t shoot down ‘bad’ ideas
Apr,15,2014
by:+RAHUL VARSHNEYA
Ever noticed that whenever Facebook implements a new design change on their website, just how many people crib and rant about the change? Most people are habituated in the way they use products and services and any change, even the slightest brings about a sudden reaction of resistance.
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Small Business Newz
How to build brand trust – 4 essential steps
Apr,17,2014
by:+Jay Gronlund
What?? You’re kidding!! You just can’t trust anyone anymore!! Too often we hear this reaction these days. Sadly the level of trust around the world has declined dramatically over the past few years – just look at the way people see the government, CEO’s, foreign countries with corruption, our Congress, and many brands (company and product/service).
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Knowledge
The Future of Social Media ROI: From Likes to Relational Metrics
Apr,14,2014
by:+David Dubois
Last year’s record haze that blanketed Singapore and surrounding countries caused enormous social media chatter. Singaporeans turned to Twitter and Facebook to voice their concerns, fears and complaints about the smog emanating from burning Indonesian farmland across the Malacca Strait in nearby Sumatra. Many were worried that respirator masks were in short supply as citizens descended on pharmacies to stock up.
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Featured Report: ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade

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MobiHealthNews
Hubbub health uses gamification, friends and family in employee wellness offering
Apr,14,2014
by+Jonah Comstock
When Virgin Pulse (then Virgin HealthMiles) opened its services to (up to three) family members for free last fall, execs from the company told MobiHealthNews they predicted other employee wellness companies would follow suit. But hubbub health, a spin-off of Portland, Oregon-based Cambia Health Solutions, is doing one better, offering its gamified employee wellness offering to any number of friends and family members of employees.
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Modern Healthcare
ACA cost estimate cut by $104B over next decade
Apr,14,2014
by:+Paul Demko
Obamacare is expected to cost $104 billion less than previously anticipated for the period 2015-24, according to a new analysis (PDF) by the Congressional Budget Office. That's in part because premiums on plans purchased through the state and federal exchanges are expected to be lower than prior estimates. That spells lower federal subsidies for individual who make up to 400% of the federal poverty threshold.
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Health Insurance Exchange
A Private Exchange For ‘Every Agent?
Apr,15,2014
by:+GILLIAN ROBERTS
Imagine a world where people can buy all types of insurance without placing a phone call. Perhaps it’s on a Sunday afternoon just after paying the bills, with feet up, relaxing on the couch, computer in hand. Brian Harrigan of Group Benefit Options says this is possible, and he wants brokers to make it happen for American consumers.
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Government Health IT
Is US on the verge of a new health economy?
Apr,14,2014
by:+Mike Miliard
With consumers entranced by fast-evolving technologies and accustomed to price competition, healthcare is set to be transformed by innovations from other sectors of the economy such as retail and telecommunications, according to a new study by PwC's Health Research Institute. In Healthcare's New Entrants: Who will be the industry's Amazon.com?, PwC suggests that "market disruptors" -- new industries, new technologies -- will soon make a big mark on the $2.8 trillion healthcare sector.
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Featured Report: Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma

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MobiHealthNews
Patients want more services, online outreach from pharma
Apr,07,2014
by+ Jonah Comstock
Patients want pharmaceutical companies to reach out to them through more digital channels, and to offer more value-add services, according to a new survey from Accenture of 2,000 American adults who are taking one or more medications and have a household income of $25,000 or more.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospital prices unchanged in March, but physician office prices rise
Apr,11,2014
by:+Melanie Evans
The Producer Price Index for acute-care hospitals was flat in March, preliminary federal data show. That's in line with the same month last year, when acute-care hospital prices showed no change, but slower than the preliminary 0.3% increase reported for February, new Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. For the year that ended in March, the hospital price index increased 1.1%, the preliminary figures show, reflecting a slowdown compared with 3.1% the prior year, and an average of 2.1% for the 12-month windows ending in March each of the last 10 years.
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Med City News
Healthcare is still a people-first (not technology-first) business, says Verizon mHealth leader
Apr,14,2014
by:+Deanna Pogorelc
As a former registered nurse and diabetes nurse educator, Julie Kling saw first-hand that patients weren’t always receiving the kind of care they deserved. That’s what drove her to the business side of healthcare as director of mHealth product management at Verizon Wireless.
Kling will share her insights as part of a discussion on the opportunities and challenges in digital health at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum, to take place April 22-23 in Chicago.
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Fierce Health IT
Nurses often view teleheath as threatening, disruptive
Apr,11,2014
by:+Ilene MacDonald
Some healthcare professionals may view telehealth as threatening and as a result, organizations should work to minimize potential disruptions, according to a new study published in BMC Health Services Research.
Researchers Urvashi Sharma and Malcolm Clarke, who both work at the department of computer science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, U.K., interviewed community support workers and clinicians--including nurses who specialize in congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)--and conducted focus groups after the introduction of telehealth in Nottingham, U.K. to find out what they thought before and after the implementation.
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